Self-Management in Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

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Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) affects 1.6 million Americans

Only 1 in 8 young adults with T1D achieve glycemic targets (glycosylated hemoglobin A1C <7.0%). Achieving glycemic targets is associated with reduced risk for both micro- and macrovascular complications, better neurocognitive function, and better diabetes quality of life.

Stephanie Griggs, PhD, RN, is adapting a cognitive-behavioral sleep self-management intervention to improve sleep health dimensions (sleep duration, stability, and timing) and diabetes outcomes. There are currently no sleep self-management interventions for T1D.

Study participants will complete a series of questionnaires, neurocognitive tests, and objective measures of sleep and glycemia captured at baseline to post-intervention (3 months) and 6 months. Concurrent assessment of continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and actigraphy over the 4-month period is a longer monitoring period than in previous studies. Participants who do not have their own glucose monitor will be provided with a Dexcom G6TM.  Participants can also opt in or out of collecting salivary biomarkers such as cortisol and melatonin.

We are currently enrolling new participants!

Contact us via our eligibility link to see if you qualify to participate.

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

 

  • Stephanie Griggs

    Stephanie Griggs, PhD, RN, FAAN

    Associate Professor
    Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
    Agnes Stahlin Baun Endowed Scholar

    Email: stephanie.griggs@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5518

    Dr. Griggs is an Assistant Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. She is a sleep and circadian scientist studying the role of the sleep and circadian system in glucoregulation among young adults with type 1 diabetes. She is developing a cognitive-behavioral sleep self-management intervention to promote multiple sleep health dimensions and improve glycemic targets (SLEEPT1). Her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research (K99NR018886/R00NR018886), American Academy of Sleep Medicine (220-BS-19), and Sigma Theta Tau International.

Study Team

 

 

Co-Investigators

 

  • Ron Hickman, Jr.

    Ronald L. Hickman, Jr., PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN

    Professor
    Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
    Associate Dean for Research
    Center for Research and Scholarship
    Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
    Ruth M. Anderson Professor
    Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

    Email: rlh4@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2147

  • Portrait of Kingman P. Strohl

    Kingman P. Strohl, MD

    Professor
    Department of Physiology and Biophysics
    Department of Medicine
    School of Medicine
    UH Cleveland Medical Center

    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sleep Medicine

    Email: Kingman.strohl@case.edu

  • Image of headshot of Seunghee Margevicius

    Seunghee Margevicius, PhD

    Biostatistician
    Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
    Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
    School of Medicine

    Email: sxp2@case.edu